Jessica Montoya Coggins
@jessicamcoggins.bsky.social
Writer & Journalist; Executive Director of The Texas Signal; Occasional runner; Cheese aficionado; Dillydallier
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I am not an attorney so I cannot speak to how out of bounds this is apparently for all y'all legal eagles out there. But, I do watch the Real Housewives. Highly recommend reading the Jerry Smith dissent in the voice of Lisa Barlow.
In a remarkable and deeply unconventional dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith unleashed a blistering and bizarre attack on his fellow judges after a federal court struck down Texas’ unconstitutional racial gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Unhinged Dissent, Texas Judge Attacks Colleagues — and George Soros
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I am not an attorney so I cannot speak to how out of bounds this is apparently for all y'all legal eagles out there. But, I do watch the Real Housewives. Highly recommend reading the Jerry Smith dissent in the voice of Lisa Barlow.
I can't emphasize how unhinged the dissent in the Texas redistricting ruling is... Soros is mentioned so many times I lost count. This is like your NewsMax pilled uncle on steroids.
In an unhinged dissent in our Texas redistricting victory, a GOP appointed judge seems to believe that George Soros and I did...well, I'm not sure what...but he is very mad. Bigly.
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I can't emphasize how unhinged the dissent in the Texas redistricting ruling is... Soros is mentioned so many times I lost count. This is like your NewsMax pilled uncle on steroids.
Quiet, piggy is resonating so much because it’s truly a distillation of him: mean, childish, and so trapped in the 1980’s
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Quiet, piggy is resonating so much because it’s truly a distillation of him: mean, childish, and so trapped in the 1980’s
Would like to note that the author of this opinion blocking Texas from using the congressional maps from their redistricting bill is a Trump appointee
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Full ruling from the Western District of Texas blocking the state from using the new congressional maps passed this summer.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Full ruling from the Western District of Texas blocking the state from using the new congressional maps passed this summer.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Would like to note that the author of this opinion blocking Texas from using the congressional maps from their redistricting bill is a Trump appointee
I was wondering when this ruling was finally going to come down. The three-judge panel in El Paso has blocked the new congressional maps from the redistricting bill. According to @democracydocket.com Texas is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: a federal court has BLOCKED the TX congressional gerrymander
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Court Blocks Texas Gerrymander for 2026, Appeal Expected
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I was wondering when this ruling was finally going to come down. The three-judge panel in El Paso has blocked the new congressional maps from the redistricting bill. According to @democracydocket.com Texas is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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It’s important that we recognize after all this time that Trump doesn’t believe in the concept of sex crimes. What’s more, he takes the idea of such crimes as a personal affront, an attack on how he has treated women his whole life.
Revealed: Trump White House intervened on behalf of another accused sex trafficker
www.alternet.org
Revealed: Trump White House intervened on behalf of another accused sex trafficker
twp.ai
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s important that we recognize after all this time that Trump doesn’t believe in the concept of sex crimes. What’s more, he takes the idea of such crimes as a personal affront, an attack on how he has treated women his whole life.
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as a reporter, the part of this that i’ve simply never understood is how the next person to ask a question when he does something like this doesn’t simply repeat the question that set him off. it’s not just solidarity with your colleague, it’s an important question that remains worth asking
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
as a reporter, the part of this that i’ve simply never understood is how the next person to ask a question when he does something like this doesn’t simply repeat the question that set him off. it’s not just solidarity with your colleague, it’s an important question that remains worth asking
This is when you truly understand how isolated this man is, because there is no way someone with true loved ones would have them sit idly by as they slurred and babbled like this
Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is when you truly understand how isolated this man is, because there is no way someone with true loved ones would have them sit idly by as they slurred and babbled like this
Memories! It feels like just yesterday he called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the JFK assassination.
Q: There's a report that Ted Cruz is laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential run. Would you consider supporting him?
TRUMP: I haven't spoken to him about it. It's a little early. We had quite a campaign against Ted and it worked out quite nicely. We're in the Oval Office.
TRUMP: I haven't spoken to him about it. It's a little early. We had quite a campaign against Ted and it worked out quite nicely. We're in the Oval Office.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Memories! It feels like just yesterday he called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the JFK assassination.
I do not have the physical, emotional, or really mental strength to read the full story of that woman and worm man
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I do not have the physical, emotional, or really mental strength to read the full story of that woman and worm man
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
The Vice President of the United States went on a big television thingy and said he was a big Grok guy and I just want to note this thing's stupidpedia says Jennifer Aniston met Vince Vaughn on "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The Vice President of the United States went on a big television thingy and said he was a big Grok guy and I just want to note this thing's stupidpedia says Jennifer Aniston met Vince Vaughn on "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
For reasons I don't want to get into but might have to do with me having had two glasses of wine, I have ventured into Grokipedia. This is the third paragraph for Jennifer Aniston:
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
For reasons I don't want to get into but might have to do with me having had two glasses of wine, I have ventured into Grokipedia. This is the third paragraph for Jennifer Aniston:
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“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
Huh going through some Epstein emails:
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Huh going through some Epstein emails:
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
"He seems like a wife that has been divorced for a younger girl."
I have also been thinking about all the major media figures who knew about all this, and/or didn't feel it was important to uncover or tell the public. How many of them frankly admired or were jealous of someone with this proximity to Epstein.
What really comes through in the birthday book and the emails is how many of these rich and powerful guys were amazed and jealous of how Epstein devoted his entire life to the rape and abuse of children while they could only dabble in it
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I have also been thinking about all the major media figures who knew about all this, and/or didn't feel it was important to uncover or tell the public. How many of them frankly admired or were jealous of someone with this proximity to Epstein.
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Fact checking by pure vibes.
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Fact checking by pure vibes.
Searching through all the times Ken Starr was mentioned in the Epstein documents, and this e-mail from 2011 is just a wtf
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Searching through all the times Ken Starr was mentioned in the Epstein documents, and this e-mail from 2011 is just a wtf
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Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is
NYT: but her emails
NYT: but her emails
"For immigrant rights advocates, the arrests and detention of immigrants with valid DACA protection is proof that the administration is trying to create something of a loophole: undermining the program’s core protections piecemeal without formally—and publicly—terminating it through regulation."
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release.
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"For immigrant rights advocates, the arrests and detention of immigrants with valid DACA protection is proof that the administration is trying to create something of a loophole: undermining the program’s core protections piecemeal without formally—and publicly—terminating it through regulation."
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What Ken Paxton is doing here is deranged -- suing organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants (especially immigrant children) -- and also we should see it as the test case for what the GOP wants to do.
There is nothing illegal—or unconstitutional—about funding legal support to ensure fairness in the courts. This lawsuit is a political stunt, wasting taxpayer dollars at a time when our communities need integrity, not spectacle.
Full article: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Full article: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Texas sues Harris County over $1.35M deportation defense fund - UPI.com
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Harris County for allocating $1.35 million to oppose federal deportation efforts.
www.upi.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What Ken Paxton is doing here is deranged -- suing organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants (especially immigrant children) -- and also we should see it as the test case for what the GOP wants to do.
Reading this story and remembering that one of the goals of Project 2025 was to end Head Start
Head Start program closures add to Texas child care crisis
Hundreds of families lost child care when certain programs weren’t funded earlier this month, and scores more may be affected if Congress doesn’t fund the government by Dec. 1.
www.texastribune.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reading this story and remembering that one of the goals of Project 2025 was to end Head Start
Well, I am insanely jealous of all the aurora pictures and videos. We didn’t have that in Dallas, but I did see the International Space Station pass overhead tonight!
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Well, I am insanely jealous of all the aurora pictures and videos. We didn’t have that in Dallas, but I did see the International Space Station pass overhead tonight!